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VOL. 01   NO. 43
OCTOBER 20,1983-CHESHVAN 13
Devoted to American
and Jewish (deals.
idosr Resigns As finance Minister
Jack L. Wallick
Wallick Elected
CJF President
Jack L. Wallick was
elected president of, the
Columbus Jewish Federation at its annual meeting,
Sept. 18.
Wallick has been in the
forefront of Jewish community activities for more than
two decades. He has been
vice-president of Federation; member of the Board of
Trustees of Heritage House;
president, Heritage Tower;
~ a member of the Building
Committee of the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Center and a
member of the Board of
Trustees of Congregation
Tifereth Israel.
He served as 1983 chairman of the Allocations Steering Committee which is
charged with the responsibility of wisely and equitably
distributing the money
raised from the United Jewish Fund Campaign. In 1980,
he was the United Jewish
Fund Campaign- general
chairman. In 1979, he was
the Advance Gifts chairman,
prior to that, associate chairman of trades and professions.
Wallick was born in New
Orleans and received his
degree in mechanical engineering from Tulane University. He is president of Wallick Construction Company.
U.S. Denies 'Secret Deal' With Syria
WASHINGTON (JTA)-The State Department denied last
week that there was any "secret deal" between the U.S. and
Syria in which the Syrians who keep the Palestine Liberation
Organization out of the Shouf mountains in Lebanon. But
State Department spokesman John Hughes indicated that the
U.S. would not be displeased if the Syrians were able to
accomplish this. "Obviously, we favor the removal of the
PLO from Lebanon by any means that can be achieved, as we
favor the departure of the Syrians and Israelis," he said.
Jewish Cemetery Vandalized
BONN (JTA)—Police are investigating the yandalization
of one of the four Jewish cemeteries in Cologne where some
60 gravestones were overturned and partially or completely
demolished recently. A spokesman for the local Jewish community said it was the most serious desecration of a Jewish
burial ground in Germany since World War II. The upended
stones were not daubed with anti-Semitic slogans as is often
the case in such incidents. Ironically, the Cologne cemetery,
which is 300 years old, survived the Nazi era intact.
Shekel
JERUSALEM (JTA)-Fi-
nance Minister Yoram
Aridor resigned from the
Cabinet last Thursday in the
midst of Israel's worst
economic crisis and furious
controversy over a plan he
had just announced, that
would link Israel's faltering
currency exclusively to the
.U.S. Dollar.
Aricfor emerged from a
specially convened Cabinet
meeting minutes after itbe-
gari at 6 p.m. local time to
tell reporters that he had
Columbus Section, NCJW To Coordinate
1983 Women's Plea For Soviet Jewry
The Board of Directors of
the National Council of
Jewish Women issued the
following statement:
"Recent establishment of a
Soviet anti-Zionist committee and the issuance of
government-sponsored anti-
Zionist and anti-Semitic
propaganda have increased
the severity of official anti-
Semitism in that country to
alarming proportions. The
intentions of the Soviet
Union are clear: isolate
Jews from the rest of the
Soviet citizenry and intimidate them so they will not
seek permission to leave.
The Soviet government contends that most Jews who
want to emigrate have already left. The National
Council on Soviet Jewry estimates that at least 300,000
Jews have asked to emigrate. Further Soviet
harassment has included
non-delivery of mail or the
removal of return addresses
on letters, imprisoning Jews
requesting to emigrate."
This statement was sent to
President  Reagan,   Secre
tary of State Shultz, U.N.
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and other appropriate officials. NCJW calls
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tendered his resignation. His
term in office was the shortest oh record. He left only
three days after being sworn
in as a member of Premier
Yitzhak Shamir's new
government. He had served
as Finance Minister in the
previous government
headed by Premier Mena-?
chem Begin.
Aridor defended his so-
called "Dollarization" plan
in Yediot Achronot and later
confirmed by him in a noontime radio interview. He
conceded, however, that
under the present circumstances he could not contribute toward its implementation or to any of the economic reforms currently under
consideration.
Aridor's departure came
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Working on the Dec. 11 Women's Plea for Soviet
Jewry are: (back row, 1. to r.) Claudia Rinkov, chairwoman; Eric Rbsenman, "staff member of the Community -Relations Committee; Alice Taub of B'nai
B'rifh Women; Janet Fisher of Hadassah; (front row)
Judy Maybruck, NCJW vice president; Gail Hollander,
president, NCJW; Karen Moss, who will speak on her
recent trip to Russia, and Toby Portman, of the local
Section, NCJW.
Smithsonian Museum To Display Artifacts Depicting Czech Jewry
WASHINGTON (JTA)-
During World War II, the
Nazis in occupied Czechoslovakia brought artifacts from
the Jewish communities of
Bohemia and Moravia to
Prague for a planned
"museum of an extinct
race." By the end of the war,
they had assembled some
94,000 objects depicting the
religious and secular life of
Czech Jewry.
These items are now part
of the some 140,000 artifacts
. in the State Jewish Museum
of Czechoslovakia in Prague.
Now, nearly 400 historical'
and artistic objects are on
loan to the U.S. for an exhibition, "The Precious Legacy:
Judaic Treasures from the
Czechoslovak Slate* Collections," which opens Nov. 9 at
the Smithsonian Institution's
Museum of Natural History.
At a press conference at
the museum, Anna Cohen,
project director of the exhibit and director of museum
development for the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council, called the Czech collection1 "one W the largest and
most important collections
of ethnic art in the world."
This is the first time any of
the items have been allowed
to leave Czechoslovakia. At
the press conference, Mark
Talisman, life chairman of
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Council and director of the
Washington office of the
Council of Jewish Federations, described the 15-year
effori to bring this about.
Talisman said the effort
began in 1968 when an as-
' sistant  to  the  then  Rep.
Charles Vanik (D. Ohio) and
the Congressman, who is of
Czech descent, visited the
state Jewish Museum in
Prague. From; then until
1979, they sought permission
to be able to see the parts of
the collection that were hot
on display. In 1979, Talisman
and two Jewish professors
were able to view what' he
called an "incredible sight"
of thousands of pieces stored
in the museum buildings, in-
cluding^one floor filled with
Torah scroll covers.
Talisman had high praise
for the "loving care" that
the Czech government and
the more than 140 employees
of the Jewish Museum have
given to the artifacts.
Peggy Loar, director of
the Smithsonian Institution's
Travelling  Exhibition Ser-
as no surprise. His policies
had been under severe criticism  from  Cabinet  colleagues as well as the political opposition for some time.
Members of Likud's Liberal
Party wing reportedly told
Shamir that either Aridor
went or they would leave his
coalition.      .
Last Desperate Attempt
His "Dollarization" plan
was seen by many as a last
desperate attempt to remain
in office. Its basic premise.
was that the U.S. Dollar or
its Shekel equivalent would
become the official currency
of Israel. All transactions,
salaries,   prices  and  the
national budget itself would
be  calculated  in  Dollar
terms. As Aridor had ex-
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vice which is organizing the
exhibit, said that 109 individuals and organizations contributed more than $1 million
to bring the exhibit to the
U.S. The major gift was
from Philip Morris, Inc.
The exhibit will run in
Washington through Dec, 31,
It will then go on display at
the Bass Museum of Art in
Miami Beach, Jan. 21-March
18; the Jewish Museum in
New York, April 15-Aug. 26;
f.he San Diego Museum of
Art, Sept. 22-Nov. 18; the
Detroit Institute of Arts,
March 12-May 5, 1985, and
the Wadsworth Athcneum,
Hartford, Conn., June 3-July
29,1985.
Concurrent with the
exhibition; children's drawings from the Terezin con-
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Chronicle Readers Rely
Oil Thursday Delivery
What causes more furor in the Central Ohio Jewish
community than Martin's running out of matzoh on
Passover? The Ohio Jewish Chronicle not being delivered on Thursday?
"For 62 years, the Chronicle has arrived in the
homes of subscribers via the U.S. Mail as second class
periodical material. For the last 20 years, the Chronicle has been delivered to the main Post Office on
Wednesday morning so that it could arrive in most subscribers' homes on Thursday," according to Milton
Pinsky, Chronicle publisher. Subscribers and advertisers have become accustomed to this and they_
depend on it, he pointed out.
During the past six months, however, this pattern
has not been consistent, Pinsky notes. Even though the
Chronicle has never reached the Post Office late/
papers have reached their destinations on Friday,
Saturday—even as late as Monday.
"Mistakes occasionally occur," says Lee Pinsky,
Chronicle circulation-manager, "arid on the rare occasion that our mailers bag or tag papers improperly, the
Post Office is supposed to notify us so that we can correct these errors immediately and not delay the processing of the mail."
In three recent instances, though, the Post Office has
been at fault, Mrs. Pinsky explains. Bags of papers
have been lost, only to be found days later and papers
have been held up on the Post Office dock for no apparent reason or without notification.
Efforts by the Chronicle staff to resolve the issue
.have met repeatedly with "no success. Dottie Freedman, of. the Chronicle staff, says, "Getting accurate
information from the Post Office is a problem. Everyone contacted offers a different excuse," The Jewish
Center, Federation and Jewish National Fund report
similar frustrations.
Meanwhile, the phone in the Chronicle office continues to ring off the hook whenever the papers are not
' delivered on Thursday and harried office staff try to .
find the, right person to contact in the postal bureaucracy to remedy the problem. Readers are urged to
call the Postmaster, Main Post Office, 469-4266, in addition to the Chronicle office anytime the paper arrives
later than usual.
"At least we know that our readers look forward to,
reading the papers," says Diane Levi, Chronicle associate editor, "and hope they continue to do so. We will
do everything in our power to make sure that they continue to have a quality paper to read—and on time."